OP, note that "adoption" is not simply merchant acceptance. That may be the trend right now, because bitcoin is currently a superior global payment network, but that won't be the primary value long-run. Eventually, fiat-payment systems will catch up. Then it will be more obvious to people that bitcoin's core value is in a confiscation-resistant, limited-supply, complete-monetary-information, open, permissionless currency and asset-class.

So "adoption" can better be thought of as some combination of number of holders and market-cap. Merchant adoption currently helps both, but will stagnate eventually, at which point the above considerations rightfully becomes dominant.

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reason? bitcoin is great , i think it will go rise step by step and finally become Universal equivalent

If it takes 5 years to ever hope to stratch ATH again, it means we lost the boat and we'll never be rich (or we will be too old to enjoy the wealth). Maybe even it would mean the adoption is way too slow for BTC to become something that normal people is going to care about. Let's hope this is not the case. In any case, if you don't own at least 300 BTC now you'll never retire from BTC which is what everyone wants secretly, so im already kinda meh about Bitcoin. If I can't retire off it, it's pointless.

reason? bitcoin is great , i think it will go rise step by step and finally become Universal equivalent

If it takes 5 years to ever hope to stratch ATH again, it means we lost the boat and we'll never be rich (or we will be too old to enjoy the wealth). Maybe even it would mean the adoption is way too slow for BTC to become something that normal people is going to care about. Let's hope this is not the case. In any case, if you don't own at least 300 BTC now you'll never retire from BTC which is what everyone wants secretly, so im already kinda meh about Bitcoin. If I can't retire off it, it's pointless.

That is NOT the attitude. No one should care if bitcoin will make you "rich". Its about forming a new currency. I dont see anyone else investing in the pound and saying "if in 5 years I can't retire from a $10,000 investment" it's worthless..

Very nice prediction, but I will not be so oiptimistic.Even if Bitcoin price will reach 520 usd by the end o0f this year, this will be good.It seems today we have more sellers than buyewrs of Bitcoin.Real, ''big'' changes will begin when big merchants accept Bitcoin as payment option, not before.I hope this will happen in 2 or maximum 5 years.

reason? bitcoin is great , i think it will go rise step by step and finally become Universal equivalent

If it takes 5 years to ever hope to stratch ATH again, it means we lost the boat and we'll never be rich (or we will be too old to enjoy the wealth). Maybe even it would mean the adoption is way too slow for BTC to become something that normal people is going to care about. Let's hope this is not the case. In any case, if you don't own at least 300 BTC now you'll never retire from BTC which is what everyone wants secretly, so im already kinda meh about Bitcoin. If I can't retire off it, it's pointless.

That is NOT the attitude. No one should care if bitcoin will make you "rich". Its about forming a new currency. I dont see anyone else investing in the pound and saying "if in 5 years I can't retire from a $10,000 investment" it's worthless..

reason? bitcoin is great , i think it will go rise step by step and finally become Universal equivalent

If it takes 5 years to ever hope to stratch ATH again, it means we lost the boat and we'll never be rich (or we will be too old to enjoy the wealth). Maybe even it would mean the adoption is way too slow for BTC to become something that normal people is going to care about. Let's hope this is not the case. In any case, if you don't own at least 300 BTC now you'll never retire from BTC which is what everyone wants secretly, so im already kinda meh about Bitcoin. If I can't retire off it, it's pointless.

That is NOT the attitude. No one should care if bitcoin will make you "rich". Its about forming a new currency. I dont see anyone else investing in the pound and saying "if in 5 years I can't retire from a $10,000 investment" it's worthless..

In order for bitcoin to be taken serious, and to become a global store of value and a stable medium of exchange it needs higher market cap. Satoshi knew this....

A higher market cap will also encourage more innovation in the bitcoin ecosystem.

Its the other way around: More innovation in the bitcoin ecosystem wil encourage a higher market cap. Just like price affects demand. Demand (in a the ideal economic/free market model) does not affect price.